This white paper discusses the progress of Sybase PowerBuilder and assesses the overall strategic options facing many PowerBuilder customers with respect to the evolution of their PowerBuilder applications. While the visibility of the PowerBuilder toolset is not where it used to be in the early 1990s, we find that the original value proposition of the product has endured and the strategic direction taken by Sybase to evolve the installed base is sound and well thought through. The PowerBuilder road map enables PowerBuilder applications to be brought into alignment with the successful Microsoft .NET platform and the familiar Visual Studio IDE, including many third-party controls. Read this paper to learn more.